This column was created to give proper notice to the motion picture’s kith and kin: the television drama. Each installment, we’ll closely examine a stalwart story from the land of anthology horror. Why? Because as you’ll soon find out, they are all small, dark wonders unto themselves. First up: Holly’s House.

Unlike traditional true-crime retellings, Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story dives into the chilling abuse allegations and complex family dynamics that led to the 1989 murder of José and Kitty Menendez.

 In 2003, Charles Cullen was convicted of killing 29 patients across two states and nine hospitals. While it is believed that his actual victim count is much higher (as many as 300), two films released just months apart in 2022 examine his story and those affected by his crimes.

In the finale of Season Four of You, viewers realize that Joe hasn’t changed his murderous ways since leaving the United States and that he’s gotten much, much worse—or better when it comes to getting away with his crimes.

In the first few episodes of Season 4 of You recently released by Netflix, viewers find Joe Goldberg living a new, peaceful life in Europe. While he’s managed to refrain from his murderous tendencies in the states, it would appear he’s now the one in someone else’s crosshairs.

Ryan Murphy’s recent adaptation of infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s life and murderous encounters in Netflix’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story seems to focus on the humanization of Dahmer, more so than the unhuman acts he committed to 17 men and boys.

In Season 4 of Stranger Things characters dealing with mental illness and trauma are targeted and tortured by Vecna, leaving viewers to pick up the importance of getting help.

The saga of murderers, Joe and Love, turned married progresses as a newborn baby throws a wrench into their new chapter in an upper-class suburban neighborhood.

The horror in Midnight Mass isn’t its vampire, though that is horrifying as well, but in its people—that an entire town of good, well-meaning families could be so easily convinced to turn on each other and their humanity. It’s a difficult but necessary pill to swallow in a post-COVID, post-QAnon world.

Things Heard & Seen seemed to promise something new for Gothic horror, but where we expected ghosts, we got failed marriages.

The Woman in the Window, one of Netflix’s latest psychological thrillers directed by Joe Wright, begins as a decent homage to Hitchcock, but weakens in its conclusion.

In the latest Peacock true crime documentary, John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise, viewers are taken through a detailed timeline surrounding the events of the 1960s and 1970s Chicago “Killer Clown” murders.

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (created by Joe Berlinger), Netflix’s latest true crime documentary and story of Elisa Lam, is like many other Netflix documentaries, but falls short in some crucial ways.

In succeeding Mike Flanagan’s Haunting of Hill House Netflix original series, The Haunting of Bly Manor draws horror back to its roots in Gothic Romance, leaving us haunted in its loose retelling of The Turn of the Screw.